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Poulton Avenue

121 reports at 23 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 104 separate days somebody filed something about it.

121 reports23 addresses104 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the name2 businessesthe 678th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

45 Poulton Avenue, 34 reports35 Poulton Avenue, 18 reports36 Poulton Avenue, 13 reports3 Poulton Avenue, 9 reports32 Poulton Avenue, 6 reports17 Poulton Avenue, 6 reports41 Poulton Avenue, 5 reports34 Poulton Avenue, 4 reports24A Poulton Avenue, 4 reports2 Poulton Avenue, 4 reports8 Poulton Avenue, 3 reports37 Poulton Avenue, 2 reports29 Poulton Avenue, 2 reports15 Poulton Avenue, 2 reports7 Poulton Avenue, 1 report34A Poulton Avenue, 1 report3-7 Poulton Avenue, 1 report26 Poulton Avenue, 1 report24a Poulton Avenue, 1 report21 Poulton Avenue, 1 report20 Poulton Avenue, 1 report2/24 Poulton Avenue, 1 report18 Poulton Avenue, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Poulton Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Richmond.

From the air, then

Poulton Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Poulton Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Poulton Avenue from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Poulton Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Poulton Avenue in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Poulton Avenue?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Poulton Avenue?

121 reports at 23 addresses, most often trees & parks (44), water & drains (25), roads & footpaths (16).

When was Poulton Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 104 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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